For the record, I nursed both of my children and I too consider it a beautiful, natural, maximally healthy thing that is to be encouraged and accepted. I didn’t deliberately seek privacy or hide myself away, but neither did I flash my equipment around. I just sat down somewhere, slipped my baby up underneath my loose shirt, and let him nosh. No one ever said a thing or gave me a dirty look, no matter what part of the US I was in, even in a few very upscale restaurants in Manhattan.
Women who flash their boobs, sometimes spraying milk around, are exhibitionists. I have no sympathy.
This is a very exciting thread for some reason.
I had two friends, one who breast fed her son until 5 at naptime. My own son was disturbed that his bud was doing that.
The other was a mom who just couldnt wean her kid. Finally one day she looked down and he was noshing on a sandwitch and taking sips and she said enough is enough.
I think it was about the closeness and comfort in both cases. Both are wonderful women in so many other ways.
Both were elderly moms, in their 40s too.